30GB iPod only registers as a 15.9GB iPod?

I updated my wife's 30GB iPod today to v1.2.3. That crashed it hard. I couldn't get the unit to respond after iTunes suggested "restoring" the unit. All it would do is bring up the Apple graphic and then reset. After getting it into disk mode and restoring it several times, it appears to be working now except it is now a 15.9GB capacity drive!! How can I reformat it to 30GB like it should be?

If your iPod is recognized in "my computer", changing the drive letter can sometimes resolve this apparent wrong capacity issue.
Click on control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management/right click on the iPod to re-assign the drive letter.
Choose something lower down the alphabet, say 'M' or something similar.
The iPod can be confused by any other storage devices assigned a similar drive letter even though they may not connected at the same time.

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I'm recycling an older iPod for all kinds of good reasons.
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If I switch to Manually manage music I'm told there's 21.1GB of music and 6.1GB of other - even though I've only stored music on the iPod.
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Is there a way to recover the missing 6 or 7GB without a fresh restore?

Thanks for trying to help.
I've found the ipod control/music folder is the only top level folder storing more than a few dozen kb. That's a good start. Sadly it contains 50 sub folders each containing around 500Mb never much more than 1GB - I know because checked every one of them manually.
I also looked in every folder - all the files are either mp3 or m4a format, so no obvious non-music files.
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Sounds like a hardware problem - a bad disk or, at the very least, bad sectors on the disk in the iPod.
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would advise you to re-post your message in the correct forum so people can with more experience in the ipod video can help you.
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I have a new slim 30Gb iPod and it can't play videos. Well, iTunes won't copy them to my ipod. So Im not sure if the ipod can play them. Its new, there's a videos menu and nothing listed when I go there.
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What you are doing wrong is you have not read the tech specs for the iPod.
iPod will only play mpeg4 videos with certain formating or h.264 videos.
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This morning when I woke up I thought maybe it was just the port so I unplugged and plugged it back into a different 2.0 port since I got 4 with that card I bought, I then left for school and came back to find that my Ipod is working like nothing happened since I changed it's port.
I just want to know if I should pull out that warrenty card and get a new one or if that message was just because the one port could recognize something was there, but not able to tell what device it is.
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